A chinese pioneer family

Aesthetic temporalities today

Contributions from various disciplines examine the present and its plural conditions and meanings. They provide insights with special emphasis on the global present as well as on art and aesthetics from the eighteenth century until today.

Berlin: the city and the court

Written before his death of TB at 27, this subtle work leaves indelible impression.

Building the land of dreams

The history of New Orleans at the turn of the nineteenth centuryIn 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellu...

C. s. lewis's mere christianity

The life and times of C. S. Lewis's modern spiritual classicMere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influe...

Capitalism

A comprehensive and concise history of capitalism from its origins to todayIn this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial ...

Climate change – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america iii

This book discusses the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.

Concepts of urban-environmental history

In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. Concepts of Urban-Environmental History aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues that have shaped recent debates in the field.

Cricket, fiction and nation

Cricket, Fiction and Nation examines how cricket has been used by fiction writers from the early nineteenth century to the present day to explore matters such as national identity, class, sexuality, murder, suicide, obsession, empire, race, migration and the global post-colonial world.

Critical realism, history, and philosophy in the social sciences

This volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question “what does a post-positivist social science look like?”

Culture and international history

Developing africa?

The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.

Evil incarnate

In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government. As hi...

Exceptional people

The past, present, and future role of global migrationThroughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In a world more interconnected than ever before, the n...

Famine

Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation--whether it is inflicted by drought or engineered by misguided or genocidal economic policies--devastates families, weakens the social fabric, and undermines political stability. Cormac Ó Gráda, the acclaimed au...

Five straight lines

Whether you prefer Baroque or pop, Theremins or violins, the music you love and listen to shapes your world. But what shaped the music? Ranging across time and space, this book takes us on a grand musical tour from music's origins in prehistory right up to the twenty-first century. Charting the l...

Forming the modern turkish village

Özge Sezer outlines the implementation of new rural settlements in Turkey, particularly following the 1934 Settlement Law, with a geographic focus on two cities - Izmir and Elazig - with varied socio-economic and ethnic standing in the state program.

From fidelity to history

Approaches “literature to film” debates in a new way, focusing upon the historical dimensions of adaptation. Considers historical adaptations as a special kind of reception. Offers rich case studies of historical and transnational film adaptations such as The Third Man (1949) and Sen...

Genealogies of the west

This book presents a new look at the West by tracing the still-recognizable footprints of the past and reflecting on the present challenges is facing. It recalls the genealogies of the plural processes, ideas, and events that structure the West’s tradition and identity, and their presence nowaday...

Georgia

A captivating journey through Georgia’s heart and soul.

Germany's conscience

Reinbert Krol’s analysis of the German historian Friedrich Meinecke’s intellectual development does not only give us insight into his philosophy of history—which turns out to be more conciliatory than previously assumed—it also provides a source of inspiration for scholars of history today.

Histories, meanings and representations of the modern hotel

This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on areas of timely scholarly enquiry. It presents case studies, including the hotel in wartime and as a terrorist target, and critically engages with innovative scholarship that explores the relationship of the hotel t...

History and memory

History and memory supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline.

International origins of social and political theory

This special issue is animated by the necessary entanglement of theory and history, the cortical relationship between theory and practice, and the transboundary relations that help to constitute systems of thought and practice.

Interwar crossroads

Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to understanding the two areas' respective and common histories until today.

Island of shame

The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport, the little-known base has been ins...

Joy in work, german work

Liberalism

A short history of liberalism since the 1820s, one rooted in practical politics rather than abstract theorising. Liberalism is shown to be best understood as a political tradition that has been profoundly shaped by Britain’s unique and evolving political culture and by political realities.

Madness in civilization

A beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreasonThe loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go—these are some of the traits we associate with madness. ...

Magical house protection

 First world-wide survey of this topic in book form.  The latest theories and thoughts about magical house protection archaeology.  The result of 20 years research on the topic.  Contains a gazeteer of discoveries in Britain and America showing the geographical distribution of th...

Mining and energy – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america v

Highlighting the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America: uncovering the struggles of Latin American societies with mining and extractive processes pertaining to energy production over the long term, from colonial contact to the Great Acceleration.

Mistrust

Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trust in the state, and on rebuilding trust through civil society. The contributors to this volume, instead, take a step back. They ask: Can mistrust ever...

Money beyond borders

A 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar—as well as crypto and central bank digital currenciesDoubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and frayin...

On pedantry

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual viceIntellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient trut...

On stalin's team

The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle—from a leading Soviet historianStalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team o...

On the pulse of time

This book brings together, for the first time, the bilingual collection of journalistic writings on India by the Nobel Prize-awarded Guatemalan-Spanish writer, Miguel Ángel Asturias.

Plagues upon the earth

A sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues Upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangero...

Planting the seeds of research

‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.

Pox romana

A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacleIn the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britai...

Principles and forms of sociocultural organization

The volume explores the development of systems of social institutions in a variety of historical and regional contexts and traces the influence of certain key principles and common factors on social and political developments throughout human history.

Promised lands

A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle EastNapoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Empire to try to secure the two routes that a European might use to reach the subcontinent—through...